Hulk Hogan had nothing however reward for the script of his biopic however stated Netflix dropped the atomic leg drop on the contracts.
Whatcha gonna do, when your biopic will get canceled on you? The once-planned Hulk Hogan biopic which was set to star Chris Hemsworth appears to have been leg dropped into oblivion, disappearing with out a lot fuss. Now, Terry Bollea himself is operating wild on simply what occurred with the film.
Showing on the PBD podcast (through Wrestlezone), Hulk Hogan stated the now-scrapped biopic bumped into points with dropping the ball over authorized issues with Netflix. “They kind of missed a beat in the contract. Yeah…There was a payment that wasn’t placed at the right time. The script was amazing. Scott Silver, who wrote the script for Joker, Wolf of Wall Street, a bunch of other movies, said, ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever written.’ When I read it, I’m like, oh my god, this is really good. At the time, I was in a space where I told him the positive stuff about wrestling.”
Hulk Hogan added that he was a fan of how the biopic was shaping up, hyping it up as a possible Oscar contender. “Spent about three years with this writer going back and forth. When I read it, it was just very, very dark, if that would be the right word, but it was probably what the public may want to see. When I read it, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, if this thing comes out,’ there was talk that Chris Hemsworth had never played a real person before and he could probably win an Oscar, this thing is so powerful. I said, ‘That’s great, everybody’s gonna do really great,’ then I’m gonna be left here alone, and that might be the last thing people remember me for, so I just was moving forward at the time, and when they business-wise missed a date, there was an option for me to pull out, and I did. I pulled out.”
Hulk Hogan additionally famous that his biopic would have ended throughout his notorious heel flip, during which he shaped the New World Order with Scott Corridor and Kevin Nash at 1996. Sorry, wrestlemaniacs, no Fingerpoke of Doom!
Little question Hulk Hogan can be one of many high wrestlers to warrant a biopic; not solely did he assist put skilled wrestling on the map, however his life and profession was crammed with controversies, from the steroid trial of 1994 to his lawsuit with Gawker to effectively past. Because it stands, speak has circulated about Gus Van Sant, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon engaged on a film that facilities across the aforementioned Gawker trial.
Do you assume there’s an curiosity in a Hulk Hogan biopic? Who can be a perfect star?
